Terry Eagleton
Related We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had ... RICHARD O'BRIEN Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used thei... DAVID FLEMING VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society,... SVEN LINDQVIST ZYGMUNT BAUMAN VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN ALAIN DUCASSE The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone a... ALFRED ROSENBERG Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to moderni... AMISH TRIPATHI The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy... GEORG SIMMEL PAULO FREIRE ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta. BRIAN W. ALDISS MARILYN FERGUSON ALAIN DE BOTTON PAULO FREIRE If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperati... CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP H. P. LOVECRAFT EDWARD ZWICK PAUL KEATING HERBERT READ SABINE BARING-GOULD ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are DR ROBIN LINCOLN WOOD JEANETTE WINTERSON RAINBOW ROWELL W.E.B. DU BOIS TOM SHADYAC LEONARDO DICAPRIO Dignity means that an individual feels self-respect and self-worth. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of... DOLORES HUERTA TERENCE MCKENNA ARNOLD BENNETT BEVERLY SILLS A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ... LIONEL TRILLING HANS URS VON BALTHASAR XI JINPING SIMON SINEK KILROY J. OLDSTER SARAH J. MAAS RICHARD FEYNMAN IMMANUEL KANT JAMES BUCHAN Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and d... JOE MOORE It seems to me that our culture is going through a crisis of its vision of what it means to be human... NIGEL CAMERON JUNE JORDAN If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You... LARS PETER HANSEN The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w... WENDELL PIERCE JOHN STUART MILL Family companies tend to be intuitive and instinctive. The business and the culture is in their bloo... DAN ROTTENBERG ANNA QUINDLEN What happened? KENNETH CLARK The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the i... HAROLD EDMUND STEARNS RAOUL VANEIGEM ANIL AGARWAL It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to ima... NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS MATT HAIG FIDEL CASTRO C. JOYBELL C. GEORGE MACDONALD SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religiou... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO Hiring a good designer means never having to choose between form and function. AMBER LIMBAUGH War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even ... CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE TERRY EAGLETON RACHEL CUSK Our culture is about distraction, numbing oneself. There is no self-reflection, no sitting still. It... DAVID GREENFIELD And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, ... KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side. CLAUDE MCDONALD Our laws are reflection of our culture, and in our culture it's not acceptable to torture small anim... JOSEPH MOORE The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. T... RUSSELL D. MOORE ORHAN PAMUK LEE KUAN YEW JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER The fact that what we believe about marriage - that it should be between a man and a woman - and tha... ROBERT JEFFRESS How To Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You: Living a Life of Autonomy in a Wage-Slave Society .... CLAIRE WOLFE JOSHUA BELL BIZ STONE WILHELM REICH The means are inconsequential, only the ens matter RITA STRADLING FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,RON W. RATHBUN Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the la... NOEL IGNATIEV Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting... CLAY CLARK When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA MARSHALL FISHWICK LEONARDO DICAPRIO We Colombians want to see action soon which reduces the conflict and means that civilians are not af... CAMILO GOMEZ MAHATMA GANDHI GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
More Terry Eagleton
TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON TERRY EAGLETON It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit... TERRY TEACHOUT Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. RANDALL TERRY TERRY BRADSHAW I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments... RANDALL TERRY If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correctio... RANDALL TERRY What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stu... RANDALL TERRY The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Ol... RANDALL TERRY If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All ... RANDALL TERRY The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money ... RANDALL TERRY In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is r... RANDALL TERRY If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are... RANDALL TERRY How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and s... RANDALL TERRY We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off. RANDALL TERRY George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong ... RANDALL TERRY We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily toward... RANDALL TERRY You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it. RANDALL TERRY He who frames the question wins the debate. RANDALL TERRY It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other ... RANDALL TERRY We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dile... RANDALL TERRY I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had. RANDALL TERRY The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. RANDALL TERRY I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that. RANDALL TERRY If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, the... RANDALL TERRY Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices. RANDALL TERRY The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredib... RANDALL TERRY Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That ... RANDALL TERRY Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a f... RANDALL TERRY The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. RANDALL TERRY TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY MCAULIFFE TERRY CREWS TERRY GLAVIN Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie... TERRY WAITE TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY SOUTHERN Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. TERRY BROOKS TERRY GLAVIN TERRY MCAULIFFE TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY GLAVIN TERRY WOGAN TERRY WOGAN TERRY GOODKIND I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try
doing your VAT return with a head ful... TERRY PRACHETT TERRY BRADSHAW TERRY MCAULIFFE TERRY GILLIAM The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,... TERRY ZWIGOFF My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#... TERRY ZWIGOFF The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executi... TERRY TEACHOUT TERRY GILLIAM I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s... TERRY TEACHOUT TERRY GLAVIN TERRY GLAVIN TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it. TERRY GROSS TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect. TERRY MCMILLAN What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh... HELEN TERRY TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s... TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT PAUL TERRY TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY JOHNSON TERRY GOODKIND TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT fantasies to make life ... TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY HANDS QUINLAN TERRY TERRY RILEY TERRY PRATCHETT ELLEN TERRY TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY MCCORMICK TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE TERRY BRADSHAW TERRY ORLICK TERRY BRADSHAW TERRY GILLIAM TERRY PRATCHETT ELLEN TERRY TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY SOUTHERN TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT TERRY PRATCHETT
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. 
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a f... 
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and ... 
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all... 
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the po... 
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or... 
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and po... 
What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through ... 
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with th... 
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisat... 
Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity. 
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion r... 
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only atta... 
The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, an... 
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of... 
There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ... 
And the thing about nerd culture being mainstream culture now means that there's no place to just be... 
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the p... 
As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy. 
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life ex... 
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture ag... 
...a life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that con... 
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ... 
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy whic... 
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has mad... 
A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corpo... 
We build a self-image from stored memories including a swarm of physical and social interactions, ev... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. 
...[M]an and generally any rational being exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means to be a... 
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splen... 
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Bla... 
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-... 
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human deve... 
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, ... 
Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the sa... 
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for... 
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and we... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words-... 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. 
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power can... 
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is co... 
Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this ki... 
The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property - a set ba... 
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. 
Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you&#... 
For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, ... 
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you a... 
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it h... 
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. 
As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of t... 
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some ... 
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation. 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing... 
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... 
If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I eve... 
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignor... 
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has idea... 
There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun v... 
The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate... 
It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was rat... 
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that f... 
I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. 
Open your eyes and then open your eyes again. 
I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&... 
The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures thems... 
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it. 
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian... 
People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in... 
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend... 
I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st... 
Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo... 
It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge... 
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away. 
Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make? 
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is ... 
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ... 
I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ... 
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. 
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu... 
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro... 
People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... 
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... 
A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. 
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. 
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b... 